What's the real reason Jay Traynor left Jay and the Americans? (It was not for a "solo career", I am sure.)

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Missing too many rehearsals or got in a fight with another band member? Bottom paragraph - With the success of "She Cried", Jay and the Americans were booked on a continuous string of one niters. The constant travel and the failure of the next two singles, proved too much for Traynor. He started missing rehearsals and the guys thought he wanted to go solo. He admitted he had been thinking about it and the guys said "don't think, we'll go on without you" (Brooklyn Attitude) Actually it was a sad day for everyone involved. John Traynor"s solo career was less than it should have been. http://www.jayandtheamericans.net/pages/trilogy.htm 2nd paragraph - The group lost momentum after this unexpected break, however, when a trio of attempted follow-ups, including their version of a Ben E. King song, "Yes," spread between a pair of singles, failed to perform nearly as well. Their future hit a seeming crisis point, however, when Traynor angrily left the quartet after a fight with Sandy Deane. Suddenly, the group was without a lead singer -- while Traynor went off to a professional liaison with Phil Spector that didn't take, and a few solo sides that never sold, the Americans found a replacement in one David Blatt, who'd sang lead with a group called the Empires and, after some coaxing, came aboard as "Jay" Black. http://www.answers.com/topic/jay-and-the-americans?curtab=2750_1 Mar 29 12, 3:56 PM